Clonal Waves of Neisseria Colonisation and Disease in the African Meningitis Belt: Eight- Year Longitudinal Study in Northern Ghana

BACKGROUND: The Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana lies in the African “meningitis belt” where epidemics of meningococcal meningitis have been reoccurring every eight to 12 years for the last 100 years. The dynamics of meningococcal colonisation and disease are incompletely understood, and h...

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Autores principales: Leimkugel, Julia, Hodgson, Abraham, Forgor, Abudulai Adams, Pflüger, Valentin, Dangy, Jean-Pierre, Smith, Tom, Achtman, Mark, Gagneux, Sébastien, Pluschke, Gerd
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17388665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040101

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1831736/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17388665
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040101

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